It's an annual tradition in America to take children to a pumpkin patch to pick out some pumpkins to take home to decorate for Halloween. We have been going to a farm every year ever since Sean was born. We try to aim it for a sunny day and we got very lucky this year since the weather was just plain gorgeous, rather hot for an outdoor outing. It was very rare that the themometor went up to over 72 degrees in mid October. That is pretty much the tempareture in summer. Standing under the bright sunshine, I felt quite hot wearing a jacket. Sean and Daddy were sweating profuciously since they were playing football at the pumpkin patch. They were the only ones playing footabl and they sort of stood out. They were not doing anything wrong, but it's as if they were playing "what things do not match in this picture?" game. Poor lady got scared when she saw an object flying towards her thinking it's a pumpkin.
We first went to a new (new to us) farm in Redmond which we didn't much care for. The surrounding was not that picturesque and the parking lot situation was two thumbs down. To clense the bad taste, we drove down to Carnation where it's gorgeous. I took the kids there by myself a few days before when their school was out for a teacher training day. They have a decently sized corn maze which we tried and alomost slipped several times since it was very muddy. Noah got spooked by the tall corn crops and wanted to be carried. I walked carefully not to fall down while carrying Noah. I knew my Chiro is going to have fun fixing me up! It was so tiring, we ended up not making it to the main pumpkin patch area. At least I took some pictures from the previous pumpkin farm. Next year, we'll stick with one farm and will stay put. I think the bright sunshine and warmth made us very excited to explore more. We had a lot of fun and sweat some healthy sweat, so it was a success regardless. We will buy some pumpkins at grocery stores as usual!
*This post was written in October :-)
